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Phenomena exhibited by the Passage of Polarized Light through Mica and Sulphate of Lime The Coloured Images produced by Polarized Light passing through Crystals having one and two Optic Axes — Circular Polarization - Elliptical ...
Phenomena exhibited by the Passage of Polarized Light through Mica and Sulphate of Lime The Coloured Images produced by Polarized Light passing through Crystals having one and two Optic Axes — Circular Polarization - Elliptical ...
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The disturbing force which acts in the line joining the moon and earth produces the Evection : it diminishes the ... The Variation produced by the tangential disturbing force , which is at its maximum when the moon is 45o distant from ...
The disturbing force which acts in the line joining the moon and earth produces the Evection : it diminishes the ... The Variation produced by the tangential disturbing force , which is at its maximum when the moon is 45o distant from ...
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THE masses of such planets as have no satellites are known by comparing the inequalitics they produce in the motions of the ... given by observation ; for the disturbing cause must necessarily be proportional to the effect it produces .
THE masses of such planets as have no satellites are known by comparing the inequalitics they produce in the motions of the ... given by observation ; for the disturbing cause must necessarily be proportional to the effect it produces .
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The high temperature of mines , hot springs , and above all the internal fires which have produced , and do still occasion , such devastation on our planet , indicate an augmentation of heat towards its centre .
The high temperature of mines , hot springs , and above all the internal fires which have produced , and do still occasion , such devastation on our planet , indicate an augmentation of heat towards its centre .
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A displacement in the position of the poles of only two hundred miles would be sufficient to produce these effects ... that in all probability any libration from one axis to another , produced by the primitive impulse which put them in ...
A displacement in the position of the poles of only two hundred miles would be sufficient to produce these effects ... that in all probability any libration from one axis to another , produced by the primitive impulse which put them in ...
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